The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.

The root of all our personal and emotional difficulties is a lack of togetherness... I therefore believe that the surest route to overcoming problems and becoming the people we were meant to be is reconnecting with God and with our community.

We have made a terrible mistake! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders and delegated their treatment to trained specialists. Damaged psyches aren't the problem. The problem is disconnected souls. What we need is connection. What we need is a healing community.

Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer.

In order to meaningfully repent of the ways in which we violate love, we must recognize them. We won’t recognize self-protective patterns of relating as sinful violations of love until we face the disappointment in our soul we’re determined never to experience again.

The goal of our sanctification is that we place Christ on display in the way we love others.

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.